Ola Salo
Born: 1977-02-19 in Avesta, Dalarnas län, Sweden
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ola Salo is a Swedish rock musician known for being the lead vocalist of glam rock band The Ark. He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Ark. Salo is openly bisexual. Salo and the other members of the band had an international breakthrough in 2000 with the album We Are The Ark, containing the signature song "It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" (for which Ola won a Grammis for "Song of the Year"), a song Salo wrote after watching the Danish film Idioterne (The Idiots). In October 2006 during a party celebrating the new Swedish embassy in Washington, The Ark was performing on stage. As a plane was flying very low overhead Salo said "In this country, you don't know where those planes are headed. Well, this one seems to be heading in the right direction anyway..." meaning the airport, but then suddenly adding "...to the White House" which happened to be in the same direction. This caused controversy as many newspapers reported that Salo had "wished an airplane to crash into the White House". Salo later said that it was a bad joke, "totally unserious way of being cheeky toward the White House" and not a political statement. The band ended up cancelling almost its entire U.S. tour. On 10 March 2007, Salo and the band The Ark won Melodifestivalen 2007 and went on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "The Worrying Kind", where, in which they came 18th with 51 points. Salo has recently translated Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar into Swedish for a performance in Malmö this autumn in which he will play the title role of Jesus, and as a result he stated that "2008 will be a very quiet year" for The Ark after a hectic 2007 with the Eurovision Song Contest and the release of Prayer for the Weekend. In 2009. Salo featured on the Empire Dogs' album, Come On You Preachers.
Filmography
2026
2021
- Masked Singer Sverige as Himself - Guest
- Evert! Evert! Evert! as Himself
- Glam, Sweat & Tears as Himself
2018
- Stjärnornas Stjärna as Himself
2015
- Renées brygga as Himself
2014
- Jesus Christ Superstar - Swedish Arena Tour as Jesus
- Stjärnor hos Babben as Self - Guest
2012
- The Ark - Live på Peace & Love 2011 as Self - Singer
2011
- Moraeus Med Mera as Self - Guest
- Tack för musiken as Self
2010
- Hellenius Hörna as Self - Musical Guest
- Så mycket bättre as Self
2009
- Skavlan as Self - Guest
2005
- Sommarkrysset as Self - Gästartist
2001
- Vi är The Ark as Self
- The Ark as Self
1997
- Så ska det låta as Self
1987
- På spåret as Gästartist
1979
- Allsång på Skansen as Self - The Ark - Guest
1959
- Melodifestivalen as Self